JavaScript Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

JavaScript Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median JavaScript Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 358 367 397
Rank change year-on-year +9 +30 -168
Contract jobs requiring a JavaScript Developer 27 89 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.38% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.40% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 80 89
10th Percentile £363 £359 £311
25th Percentile £419 £418 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £476 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.26% +5.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £525
90th Percentile £600 £664 £588
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -13.04% - +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £65.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate - £65.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year - +54.12% -3.95%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £43.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £65.50 £38.75
% change year-on-year -38.93% +69.03% -12.43%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,985 22,167 29,345
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.31% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,554 15,534 20,562
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £399 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,259 1,145 1,448
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.73 £18.03 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.55 £65.00 £42.57
90th Percentile £73.80 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

JavaScript Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured JavaScript Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript Developer in the UK excluding London

JavaScript Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JavaScript Developer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for JavaScript Developer in the UK excluding London

JavaScript Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript Developer in the UK excluding London

JavaScript Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JavaScript Developer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript Developer in the UK excluding London

JavaScript Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +9 10 £450 -15.29% 13
North West +17 8 £450 -17.24% 9
South West +20 7 £575 +2.22%
South East +9 6 £375 -13.04% 5
East of England +1 3 £600 +20.00% 3
Yorkshire +15 2 £375 -28.57% 2
Midlands +20 1 - - 14
East Midlands +10 1 - - 10
JavaScript Developer
UK

JavaScript Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, JavaScript Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring JavaScript Developer in the job title.

1 27 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 19 (70.37%) React
3 13 (48.15%) Node.js
4 9 (33.33%) HTML
4 9 (33.33%) CSS
5 8 (29.63%) Azure
6 7 (25.93%) Web Development
6 7 (25.93%) Full Stack Development
7 6 (22.22%) Finance
7 6 (22.22%) TypeScript
8 5 (18.52%) Public Sector
8 5 (18.52%) Java
8 5 (18.52%) AWS
8 5 (18.52%) Git
9 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
9 4 (14.81%) Software Engineering
9 4 (14.81%) Agile
9 4 (14.81%) Front End Development
9 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (14.81%) Kubernetes
10 3 (11.11%) DevOps
10 3 (11.11%) User Experience
10 3 (11.11%) Express.js
10 3 (11.11%) Analytics
10 3 (11.11%) MongoDB
10 3 (11.11%) Jest
10 3 (11.11%) Vue
10 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
10 3 (11.11%) C#
10 3 (11.11%) Manufacturing

JavaScript Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.41%) CMS
1 2 (7.41%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.70%) Camunda
2 1 (3.70%) Headless CMS
2 1 (3.70%) Kentico
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Sketch
2 1 (3.70%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 8 (29.63%) Azure
2 5 (18.52%) AWS
3 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (7.41%) Figma
3 2 (7.41%) GCP
3 2 (7.41%) GitHub
3 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.70%) npm
4 1 (3.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Firewall
1 1 (3.70%) Intranet
1 1 (3.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.70%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (3.70%) MySQL
2 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Git
2 2 (7.41%) git-flow
2 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.41%) JIRA
3 1 (3.70%) Selenium
3 1 (3.70%) Visual Studio
3 1 (3.70%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (3.70%) webpack
General
1 6 (22.22%) Finance
2 5 (18.52%) Public Sector
3 3 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.70%) Advertising
5 1 (3.70%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (70.37%) React
2 13 (48.15%) Node.js
3 9 (33.33%) CSS
3 9 (33.33%) HTML
4 3 (11.11%) Express.js
4 3 (11.11%) Jest
4 3 (11.11%) MERN Stack
4 3 (11.11%) Vue
5 2 (7.41%) Entity Framework
5 2 (7.41%) GraphQL
5 2 (7.41%) PySpark
6 1 (3.70%) .NET
6 1 (3.70%) DOM
6 1 (3.70%) GatsbyJS
6 1 (3.70%) Laravel
6 1 (3.70%) Redux
6 1 (3.70%) REST
6 1 (3.70%) Spring Boot
6 1 (3.70%) Twig
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Biopharmaceutical
1 2 (7.41%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.70%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.70%) e-Health
2 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.70%) LIMS
2 1 (3.70%) NHS
2 1 (3.70%) PACS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.93%) Full Stack Development
1 7 (25.93%) Web Development
2 4 (14.81%) Agile
2 4 (14.81%) Front End Development
2 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (14.81%) Software Engineering
3 3 (11.11%) Analytics
3 3 (11.11%) DevOps
3 3 (11.11%) User Experience
4 2 (7.41%) B2B
4 2 (7.41%) B2C
4 2 (7.41%) Business Analytics
4 2 (7.41%) Clean Code
4 2 (7.41%) Data Engineering
4 2 (7.41%) Data Interpretation
4 2 (7.41%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (7.41%) Pair Programming
4 2 (7.41%) TDD
4 2 (7.41%) Validation
4 2 (7.41%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 27 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (22.22%) TypeScript
3 5 (18.52%) Java
4 3 (11.11%) C#
4 3 (11.11%) Python
5 2 (7.41%) Bash
6 1 (3.70%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.70%) HL7
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Docker
1 2 (7.41%) zsh
Systems Management
1 4 (14.81%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (7.41%) Google